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Sello Modipadi
on Dec 22, 2024
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You strongly believe that tennis is the greatest sport of all time. You meet Bob, who overtly tries to convince you that football is globally the greatest sport. In response, you criticise Bob and not only enhance your belief that tennis is the greatest sport of all time but that football is the worst sport! You have just undergone a process of:
A) inoculation.
B) reactance.
C) forewarning.
D) free will.
Inoculation
A way of making people resistant to persuasion. By providing them with a diluted counter-argument, they can build up effective refutations to a later, stronger argument.
Reactance
Brehm’s theory that people try to protect their freedom to act. When they perceive that this freedom has been curtailed, they will act to regain it.
- Investigate the influence of attitude strength and accessibility on their resilience to persuasive efforts.
- Learn about resistance mechanisms to persuasive messages, including inoculation and reactance.
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Learning Objectives
- Investigate the influence of attitude strength and accessibility on their resilience to persuasive efforts.
- Learn about resistance mechanisms to persuasive messages, including inoculation and reactance.